Virginia Woolf Flashcards
When did Woolf suffer mental breakdowns?
After her mother’s death in 1895 and her father’s death in 1904
What was Virginia Woolf’s first novel and when was it published?
The Voyage Out in 1915
When did Woolf get confined to a nursing home?
In 1920 and 1912
When did Woolf try to commit suicide?
After delivering the manuscript of her first novel to the publisher in 1913
Who did Virginia Stephen marry in August 1912?
Leonard Woolf
When was Woolf’s second breakdown over her first manuscript?
In March 1915 after its realease
How long was Woolf under nursing care after her breakdown in March 1915?
For six months until November 1915
What did the Woolfs begin to publish as in 1917?
As Hogarth Press
When was the Hogarth Press’s first publication?
In 1917
What were the two stories in Two Stories published by Hogarth Press?
The Mark on the Wall and Leonard’s Three Jews
What was the goal of Hogarth Press?
To offer a chance of publication to authors who rather small volumes might not be considered by commercial publishers
Who did Hogarth Press publish?
E.M. Forester, Katherine Mansfield, Rogery Fry and T.S. Eliot
Was Woolf pacifist or patriotic?
Pascifist
Whose patriotism did Virginia Woolf find revoltin?
Poet Rupert Brooke
Where did Woolf experience martial law and why?
In Sussex in 1914, because it was only 15 miles from the North Sea and was preparing for a possible German invasion
Whose death was a turning point in how Virginia Woolf saw the war?
Rupert Brokoke
Who did Woolf believe was immune from the effects of war?
Civilians
Who is a victim of shell shock in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, 9125?
Septimus Warren Smith
What happens to Septimus Warren Smith?
He is a victim of shell shock who is badly treated by physicians and sees visions of his friend killed in the war so he throws himself out the window in a delusional state
Who is Septimus Warren Smith an alter ego of?
Woolf herself
When did Eliot meet Woolf?
In 1918
When did Woolf write in her diary about hearing Eliot recite his poem?
In June 1922
When was The Waste Land brought out by Hogarth Press?
In September 1923
How many months after being brought out in Boni and Liveright was The Waste Land brought out by Hogarth Press?
9 months
What was one of the most typographically challenging works ever typeset by Virginia Woolf?
The Waste Land
When did Woolf publish To the Lighthouse?
In October 1927
For what newspaper did Woolf review The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women?
The New York Herald Tribune
When did Woolf review The Sun Also Rises and Men Without Women?
October 1927
In the 1930’s what did Woolf increasingly become?
Politically active
Woolf’s break with individual and collective consciousness began after publication of what book?
The Waves
What book did Woolf refer to as an abstract mystical eyeless book?
The Waves
What was the sequel to The Waves?
A Room of One’s Own
What two works did Woolf split A Room of One’s Own into?
The Years and Three Guineas
What type of political novel was The Years?
Feminist
What type of political novel was Three Guineas?
Anti-fascist
How is Three Guineas unique?
It is passionate to the exposure of a fascist, masculine culture in the heart of England and unrelenting in its attack on sexism which denied women access to higher education, a voice in the government, and employment in the professions
What was the last work of Woolf’s to appear in her lifetime?
The July 1940 biography of her friend, painter Roger Fry
What was Woolf’s last novel?
Between the Acts whose titles referred to the world stage in between two acts of war
When did Woolf kill herself and why?
In March 1941 due to despair about the escalation of World War Two, fears her political arguments had fallen on deaf ears and worry that she was going mad once more
What is The Mark On the Wall a fine example of?
Early Modernist experimental fiction using an interior monologue
What does the story of The Mark On the Wall take place in?
The speaker’s consciousness
How is the consciousness brought back to external reality?
Through repeated mention and almost observation of the mark on the wall
The speaker in The Mark on the Wall offers a powerful comparison to?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s madwoman in The Yellow Wallpaper
Who developed the rest cure?
Neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell
What was Gilman’s purpose in The Yellow Wallpaper?
Her intention was to send a message to Mitchell that treatments such as his instead of curing women drove them mad
What does the Mark on the Wall alternate between?
The observation of concrete reality and an interior, associative consciousness
What is the significance of the knights in The Mark on the Wall?
They point toward militarism and toward the medieval past
What ancient war was mentioned in The Mark on the Wall?
The Trojan War
What 1915 battle does Woolf reference in The Mark on the Wall?
The Battle of Gallipoli
What is Woolf’s connection with the Battle of Gallipoli?
Rupert Brooke died in the Aegean Sea on his way to fight in this battle
What does the reference to Charles I bring up in The Mark on the Wall?
The bloody English Civil War and implies the history of a king executed for blocking Parliamentary rule
What is the reason for the reference to Whitaker’s Table of Precendency in The Mark on the Wall?
To underscore the pecking order of aristocracy established in Whitaker’s director of titled persons
